media: adverts

When I was a kid I watched this vacuum commercial where there was a tornado, and this lady got her vacuum cleaner and sucked up the tornado. So when I was little I used to ask my parents "Why don't they just suck the tornado up with a vacuum cleaner?"

When I was a kid there was a commercial for BP that ending with the words "on the move". For some reason I thought it said "on the moon" and thought it was a weird thing to say as why would you they put a gas station on the moon? ;)

well when i was a kid i used to believe that every time an advert was on the TV and they put the advert again the actors were doing the same scene over and over again...

Seeing all those time-share commercials I believed that for some reason everybody in America owned a time share in at least one condo or resort, and you just had to call up a bunch of people and sort through a lot of paperwork to see which one you had. Once you had documentation to prove which was yours, you could then sell your time-share.

I used to believe that, on television when it said 'Please ask for Bill payer's permission', that Bill Payer was some guy everyone used to ring up to ask for permission to do something. I used to say 'Man, Bill Payer must be annoyed with these people calling him asking can they buy things all the time.'

I used to think that if you ate ready brek you would get an orange glow like the people in the adverts. So when i had a bowl of ready brek i was really exicited and i ate it and nothing happened!

I used to believe that when a commercial came on for a sweepstakes, when it said at the end, "Many will enter, few will win," I misheard it and thought that it was actually saying, "Many will enter, YOU will win." I'm still waiting to win something like they promised I would.

An advert used to come up that said, "To Let". For the LONGEST time I thought that it mean 'Toilet' and they always left out the 'i'. I'd think why they didn't notice their mistake and fix it and sometimes I even thought about calling them or something and letting them know myself!

When I was in my kindergarten stage, they used to have these ads on TV for Twister, the game. In the ad it was called Twister the "hot spot" and had children pulling their hand away from them because the spots were hot. I was thrilled by the game and thought that it actually was a "hot spot" No need to say how disappointed I was when I pulled out the mat at kindergarten the next few weeks and realized it was cold =[

When I was a kid I loved commercial jingles like the Barbie commercial: "We girls, can do anything... WHITE Barbie" (despite my parents pointing out it was "right Barbie?" I insisted it made sense because the doll was, in fact, Caucasian.

When I was growing up I saw billboards for Household Finance Co. (HFC) My dad had the same initials. I asked about that and he said the company was named after him. For a few years I really thought the Household Finance Company was named after my Dad.

I used to see Kroger commercials on TV as a kid, and I thought for sure it was continuosly being filmed live at the Kroger my mom and I shopped at. So whenever I would go to the store with her, I was always on the lookout for the cameras, hoping to be in the next TV commercial.

I used to think that a sign in a storefront window that advertised "HEARING AIDS" was a support group for people with H.I.V. It never crossed my mind that it might be a place to buy devices to help you hear better.

I used to believe if you were moving the Century 21 people would really come and pick your house up and take you away. (Based on a commercial they ran back in the 80s)

A car commercial when I was about 5 or 6...
Correct words: "Like a rock"
What I heard: "Lacker up"
I always got confused wondering why they'd choose a slogan that didn't make sense. I didn't figure it out until I was 10/11 when my dad heard me singing along with the jingle and told me the actual words

I thought Tuck's Medicated pads were for putting matches out. In the commercial they used to show a match light on fire and then they would use the pad to put out the flame. I would always tell my mom why don't people save money and just blow the match out.

When I was four years old, they were still running those ads on TV for polio vaccinations. One of the ads had a string puppet dancing happily, and then a shadow appeared of a hand with a pair of scissors and cut one of the strings; the puppet's arm went limp. Then the shadow scissors cut another string, and another, and another, until the puppet was laying lifeless on the ground. After that, I didn't like going into my bedroom with the lights off, because I was afraid the shadow scissors would cut off my strings as well....

One day when I was about 5 my grandmother was driving me to her mother-in-laws flat in Potts Point. When passing the Coca Cola sign in Kings Cross, I asked her what it said, she replied "drink your milk".